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If you say to someone, "**** you", the censor isn't actually protecting the recipient from the content of the message. Maybe this is just a flaw with censors as a whole (like beeps) but it's like you're not even trying to hide what was said. With just a little context you can figure out what pretty much anything was meant to say. Therefore, remove the content of the message entirely or simply prevent an offensive post from being sent.
The main reason I've always wanted the former was because of how hilarious it sounds to me.

I just love the idea of pissing someone off and them retorting, "[BLANK] YOU!"
The latter could create a situation like with Cofagrigus in Black/White, and frankly wouldn't be nearly as fun. If you cut the whole word out, it might be more difficult to tell when someone is being offensive, but let's look at it this way:

Suppose you're upset, and you try to scream profanities at someone. Well, it all got cut out of the post so you start laughing at how ridiculous it looks instead. Now you're in a good mood and you get over it and everyone is happy. Move on.

I know this is a more minor suggestion, but it's been bugging me a little bit.

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I can't believe you are saying this xD
Remember you took me to that site? I'd rather not tell what you did there :3
Anyways a censor idea is good, but people go around it by putting '*' and sometimes doing modifications on the words (there are some, i won't name them) which means the censor will be almost pointless
I don't see much of a point in removing the word at all, I mean, the word might need to be there to make sense. But it seems good to just not let the message post at all since it has a swear word. That suggestion works well, the other doesn't imo.
I didn't even know there was a censoring thing in the chat room. I've seen people swear in it before.

And what does imo mean?
It means "in my opinion".

Not all swearing is censored, just the major ones. And there are ways to get around it (no matter how good a design, a computer is a computer, and it can't deal with anything it's not mean't too or is impossible for it)
i dont get how **** is bad
its another way of saying poop

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I think it might end up being confusing if words are missing. Plus if people are being offensive towards others they will get banned anyway.

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